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If you are showing the grid, you have snap to grid turned on. Perhaps you haven't noticed which edges get aligned with the grid if your shapes are not integer multiples of grid units in size. The sides closest to where you are touching the shape are the ones aligned with the grid.

Perhaps I did not explain this good enough. I do of course see the option. Turn grid on, turn snap on, drag a new shape out but dont let go. Notice how you can place it anywhere.

Ah, now I see though, they do drop into the grid :)

I guess it would be nice to see as you drag an object around how it snaps to the grid.

Cheers

What shape are you dragging out for this experiment? When I do it, using the shape tool in drawing mode (tap the pencil, tap the rectangle with a +) the side closest to where I started dragging is drawn aligned with the grid from the outset. I suppose it is possible that the behavior has changed between the released version and the alpha I'm running.

Or do you mean drag a shape out from a stencil? That does seem to allow you to drop it anywhere, initially, though any subsequent adjustment snaps to the grid.

FWIW, I wish the grid display and snap to grid could be independent options like in the Mac version! I suppose I could supply my own grid in another layer.

The snap to grid behavior when moving shapes around is somewhat different than the Mac version. On the Mac, you get a "click" every time an edge meets a grid line, so if your shape isn't an integer multiple of grid units along the direction you are moving, it aligns one edge then the opposite edge. On the iPad you get half as many "clicks" because it only tries to align the edge closest to your finger.

I'm using the default shapes in the stencils drop down. If I draw shapes manually they do snap but part of the reason I want to use a grid is to save time.

I've found with some experimentation that the grid is indeed broken. Shapes may vertically align to it when they do not horizontally align to it.

I don't even care if the top/left edge snaps to a grid point, as long as all the shapes are on the SAME grid I can position them accurately and quickly. Workflow would be speeded up.

As it is (broken) I still have to nudge shapes into place pixel by pixel.

This is a serious failing of a piece of software the requires accurate placement of objects. The absence of an 'align' feature must have been a seriously discussed topic before release. Sketch has align and I find that easier to use for many things for that very reason.

As it stands: With grid turned on, snap to grid turned on, default shapes (squares) dragged from the shapes palette do NOT automatically snap to the grid. They each snap to what appears to be an independent grid so that aligning them with each other is impossible without nudging them pixel by pixel.